#im speaking from my own experience

[groupieculture]

I often times feel like I will never find someone who truly loves and worships me. The guys I’ve met through online dating all showed interest at first but no one really cared to stick around or tried to really get to know me better. It results in a constant fear and ongoing pessimistic state of mind once I begin to chat with a guy cause I know that it will not last and he will lose interest. I just don’t understand why it is so easy for other girls. Like I want to stay true to myself and don’t want to change for anyone but I also just want to be liked. I also don’t want to lose hope but it’s just a pattern I’m tired of. I’m 26 as well and I feel like some times you had similar thoughts so maybe you understand.

i get it angel and its very hard i know! i think the trick is to reframe this as a 'you' problem which is really hard coming from a person who struggles with this every day because of my past experiences with men, but (now im speaking from experiences) 1) dating and finding your soulmate is honestly a numbers game and luck 2) yes its very hard to be in this situation but a tough love mindset absolutely needed to be integrated into my brain - not saying that you need to man up and not feel bad ever again but if you keep feeling this way its very hard to come out of it. thinking about it all day long it hinders every part of your life at least it did for me. 3) refocus your thoughts onto anything else when you feel those sad feelings coming up - feeling them over and over again everyday will harm your psyche irreparably and there is no gain in feeling those feelings. you have a right to feel sad, but dont exercise it whenever you want because youll want to do it all the time

[ignus-moth]

i kinda feel like people tend to ignore nonbinary people. there’s trans men and trans women, there’s transmascs and transfems. that’s it.

I identify as trans and nonbinary. Kind of. I actually prefer genderfluid but the only things I see about genderfluid is… “haha genderfluid ppl are actually liquid lol”. I never feel acknowledged by people that aren’t genderfluid. I see my flag on pins, I see people advocating for “weird trans people”. Yet it feels like no one actually cares about including us.

I understand not all nonbinary and genderfluid people identify as trans. I get it, it’s valid. You do you.

I just… I want to be a part of the trans community, too. Even if I’m not part of the binary. And it doesn’t feel like I’m allowed to.

I don’t know the solution. I don’t know how to fix it. I just want to be acknowledged. Even on days I feel fem, even on days I feel masc, even on days I feel I have no gender, even on days I feel like all genders at once. Why can’t I be confusing?

[crescentfool]

having the hc that minato is ace is incredibly funny sometimes when you think about how ryoji is oh so very bi because it's like. "ah. death stole my ability to be attracted to people," in the same way that ryoji stole minato's eye color and energy level. like wow, thanks ryoji, you just keep finding things to steal from minato!

[puppyeared]

if escape rooms as team building exercises became popular im not sure if id be more excited or terrified

[hella1975]

all hate to tiktok for taking 'having a space to more openly and actively talk about different cultures' to mean 'cultures are NOT to be shared and we must be vigilantly defensive of our cultures for fear of appropriation, a word that can be applied to any multicultural interaction'. like of course cultural appropriation is a very real problem but ive seen with the access to global multicultural conversation that tiktok provides it's made people TERRIFIED to even interact with cultures other than their own for fear of 'doing it wrong'. like at some point you have to acknowledge that in the real world of the great outdoors, the majority of people are eager to SHARE their cultures. yes there are ignorant questions and biases but also... how do you think those things get unlearnt? i dont understand how deciding that multiculturalism is an elephant in the room instead of a normal thing that should just be talked about and lived with is supposed to benefit anyone? and kids on tiktok are CONVINCED that it's a time bomb of a conversation to have and therefore must be avoided at all costs but like. people generally LOVE their home and their culture and are PROUD of it and want to share it. how have we made it so that showing genuine interest and a desire to understand something so integral to a person's identity is now feared and borderline demonised?

[definitelynotshouting]

Can I ask, since you mentioned agreeing 'even if under duress' - how did the Watchers convince Player Grian to join them in hunger au?

So take this with the specific grain of salt that ive never watched Evo directly (but have friends who have ((thank you wren)), so i know tidbits via osmosis from them), but my thought has always been that the riddles the Watchers gave the Evo Players were all tests used to measure cleverness and intelligence-- the whole point of them attempting to copy the mind of a Player into a Watcher larva in the first place was to try and avoid the insanely high infant mortality rate their typical juveniles go through, bc they dont understand their own limits enough to even know they have them yet. So they needed a Player they knew they could instruct and who would listen to them, and, well. Grian, for all he was rebellious and outright defiant of the Watchers, still solved their puzzles and only had to be punished once before he stopped trying to mess with them

What ive always pictured is after the dragon fight the two main elders of the Watcher colony finally revealed themselves to Grian properly-- i have this crystal clear image of the two of them hovering above and next to the central end island, looming over Grian, and like, these guys are big. HUGE. A good 5x bigger than the ender dragon itself, at LEAST. It would be hard not to feel insanely intimidated by that, honestly, especially when there are two of them side by side, blocking your entire view of the End from that direction.

Anyway picture that with the context of these two giant floating winged worms youve never seen before, who have demonstrated their powerful ability to manipulate code in a way you cant.... telling you that they have chosen you to become one of them. Thats an immense amount of pressure, both from flattery and fear, especially considering theyve punished you before for defying them. I like to think even then, Grian balked a bit, and while i dont have exact dialogue beats here, i know the Watchers continued putting that pressure on him (likely while leveraging his friendships too-- like ive always said, if Grian hadnt been chosen, BigB wouldve been, and i can absolutely see the Watchers offering to take him in Grian's stead) until he finally caved and accepted their "offer" of joining them.

Unfortunately, he didnt find out exactly what that entailed until it was far too late.

[cozybearz]

Case in point for that last post was when I was at a farm shop and telling my grandpa I wasn’t sure what varieties of the pumpkins they had were best for cooking and he seemed to find it unfathomable that I wanted a pumpkin for anything other than desserts or decoration.

And also simply the fact that so many people (including myself) seem to straight up consider all but a few varieties of pumpkins inedible. Not to say that there aren’t varieties that are more suitable for decoration than food but it seems like most people (again, including myself) just don’t know how many varieties are edible and whats best for what bc we aren’t raised eating them even though they come from here, idk

[cherry-treelane]

everytime i watch shameless I get hit with a jolt of sickness and remember how frank and monica stole fionas life from her and she'll never get it back because it never existed because she was a sister first her whole life (from the age of 4) and everything else second and its always just so casual in the show and normal and rarely touched upon but it's not normal at all and it's tragic

[cowardlycowboys]

I wish more people donated children's old clothes to daycares more

[mokeonn]

if you dont mind sharing, what are some of your favorite ska songs/bands?

I will admit I am not a huge band person I tend to be more of a "pick whatever random songs sound good" person, so I can't recommend any good bands. I also listen to Ska Punk, which is a subgenre of Ska... and Punk. So I am not a good authority on Ska songs to listen to I am just someone who is banned from being passed the aux cord...

But some of my favorite songs include:

No Children - Ska (cover)

Quinto Patio Ska

Everything Went Numb

S F D D

And songs by Reel Big Fish tbh. I know I just said I don't listen to specific bands but Reel Big Fish has some pretty good songs like...

Sell Out

And their Take on Me cover

Here's my disclaimer, though: I am not into music subcultures I just listen to whatever sounds good (and jazzy punk with horns sounds good), so I could be giving absolutely awful music recommendations that anyone who is especially into Ska (and more specifically Ska Punk) might find egregious. I personally just grab whatever song sounds good and add them to my forever long playlist.

Also the Jabberjaw (Running Underwater) song from Pain used for the Cartoon Network Boomerang Groovies is probably the reason I enjoy Ska punk so much, and it has been in my playlist for years now:

If nothing else in this list interests you, I require everyone by law to listen to Jabberjaw Running Under Water by pain and watch the Cartoon Network Boomerang Groovie video of it. I used to watch Boomerang a million times, and this was probably the only Groovie I really enjoyed watching and didn't go to the bathroom during.

[monachopism]

being jewish with zero affiliation to israel and rather a generational line of activists for palestine is a hard line to walk and sometimes i wish i could just fall off

[peachzin]

i found my ps3.. and rush ordered a copy of ff13

[2024skin]

It's fucked up that the sober population straight up ignores how a huge portion of addicts have chronic illnesses

[thequibblingking13]

Worried people are gonna look at my own oc's struggle of the self and decide that those are two different characters instead of fractured parts of the same (looks at how people perceive V, Urizen and vergil in dmc)

[800-dick-pics]

the way yall be lying abt loving and protecting black femmes and they way it be your own people too like!!!!!!! can i catch a fucking break, im just tryna exist and not be harassed for being alienated!!!

rb this and 7,000,000 spiders will crawl into your mouth as you sleep!

rb this and 7,000,000 spiders will crawl into your mouth as you sleep!

rb this and 7,000,000 spiders will crawl into your mouth as you sleep!

rb this and 7,000,000 spiders will crawl into your mouth as you sleep!

rb this and 7,000,000 spiders will crawl into your mouth as you sleep!

[foolbo]

i love you italian characters who struggle with their relationship with catholicism (or lack of relationship)